Mortal disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and cutaneous involvement in a COVID-19 positive patient; case report

Authors : Muharrem Bayrak, Kenan Çadirci

Pages : 259-261

Doi:10.38053/acmj.930047

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Publication Date : 2021-07-14

Article Type : Other

Abstract :Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) is a highly deadly disease that causes 77 million cases and 1.6 million deaths worldwide. Many cutaneous manifestations are seen in COVID-19 disease.Cutaneous pathologies such as vascular endothelial damage, prothrombotic conditions, hemorrhagic cutaneous lesions, vasculitis, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), ecchymotic skin lesions, purpura, dry gangrene are seen in patients with COVID-19.While our 84-year-old male patient was being treated with COVID-19 pneumonia in the infection ward, DIC developed on the 9th day of his treatment and widespread petechia, purpura, ecchymosis, necrosis, gangrene, bullous skin lesions were observed in his left arm related to this.In our case, we aimed to present a case of DIC that developed as a complication as a result of COVID-19 infection and having a mortal course with cutaneous involvement due to it, to the literature.
Keywords : DIC, coronavirus-19, cutaneous involvement, infection, mortality.